The shoot first state? Ads warn about law (Florida)

The St. Petersburg Times ^ | September 29, 2005 | STEVE BOUSQUET

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Good one. I'll have to remember that...

[Ladysmith]

Our Business Law instructor tried to tell us that's what the law does say. Burns my hide thinking about it because some may make the mistake of doing so and get killed by an accompliss waiting outside. There is no way I'll try running out of my home. I will hunker down in my home first, ready to take any intruders out.

The armed self-defense class I took was excellent - we had a lawyer there who is solid Second Amendment instruct us on the laws.

Figure out the scenarios and how you'll react. Have the phone number of a good lawyer who believes in the Second Amendment ready - talk to him ahead of time about what you should do after defending yourself. Plan, set up, practice, be ready. Then when an intruder of your home advances towards you, shoot to kill. Call your lawyer before you call the police. Then call the police.

[lastchance]

I always wondered why they call it Tourist Season if we aren't allowed to shoot them? As a Floridian I gotta say I love this law. I of course had no idea that it would allow me to take potshots at obnoxious (notice the qualifier obnoxious) Yankees and other visitors to our State. But hey a pleasant surprise is always a pleasant surprise.
Now where I think this would come in handiest is at those attractions such as Disney World which our very popular with South Americans. Talk about rude. These people have no concept of waiting your turn in line. They also have a very select knowledge of English. Ask them to sit during the Main street parade so other behind them can see and you get a blank stare. Call them **&%&*@# and boy do they understand!!!. So instead of trying to patiently explain that in this Country we do not hold 56 places in line for our friends and relatives I could just wave around a .32. Works for me. If I shot one would I still get to keep my place in line?

[webstersII]

"libtards"

Now that's funny!

[Fred911]

"We think it's reasonable to tell people that they should avoid passionate confrontations when they come to Florida," said Peter Hamm, the Brady campaign's communications director. Hey Pete, are you saying that "passionate confrontations" were OK, before this change in the law? And just what is a "passionate confrontation" anyway....would it be something like rape?

[Restorer]

removes a common-law duty to retreat in the face of attack.

Unlike what some have posted here, this is not recent liberal law.

This goes way back in English common law. The principle was intended to remove the situation where two people get into an argument, which escalates to a fight and one of them winds up dead, whereupon the winner claims he killed in self-defense. Until passage of this law a killer had to prove he made an effort to defuse the situation by retreating.